This brightly colored set of faience glass bead necklaces belonging to a young girl are remarkable for their technically brilliant manufacture and for how the tiny stone beads amulets were drilled. Mayet was only five when she was buried among the older female members of the King Mentuhotep II’s court in his funerary complex at Deir el Bahri. (Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Myt, Temple of Mentuhotep II, Pit 18, mummy of Myt, MMA excavations, 1921). Although her burial was simple, her necklaces, including two others of gold and carnelian beads, are some of the finest jewellery that survives from this period and the signs of wear on the beads indicate Mayet, or perhaps another woman, wore them during their lifetime. The 67cm necklace consists of four strands of faience glass beads, silver and amulets of turquoise, amethyst and carnelian. King Mentuhotep II reigned circa 2051-2030 BCE, Dynasty 11, Middle Kingdom. Source : www.metmuseum.org
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A Battle Axe recovered from the sarcophagus of a man named Bak-Amun (Baki) in the east chamber of the tomb of Neferkhawet, in Asasif, Thebes, Upper Egypt.
It is from the early 18th dynasty of the New Kingdom, from the reign of Thutmose I, ca. 1504-1447 BC.
The handle has been restored with modern wood, as have the rawhide lashings, and is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, @metarmsandarmor

SPHINX: Unlike the more peaceful and benevolent variation down at Egypt, the Sphinx of Greece is a beautiful yet deadly creature. Taking form of a winged lion with a woman's head and a serpent at the end of her tail, she was a force to be reckoned with by mortals. Some say she was born from the terrible Typhon and Echidna, others say she was born fom the strange union of the two headed dog Orthus and the hot-headed Chimaera; either way, her appearance was just as odd as her behavior. Anyway, the story goes that she she was sent by the gods to torment the town of Thebes and its citizens for a crime committed long ago. Whenever a traveler would pass by the country to enter Thebes, the Spinx would be lying down to ask anyone this riddle: "what creature has one voice yet goes on four, two and three legs?" But because no one could figure out the riddle, many were pounced upon and ripped to pieces by her wrath. That is until a man named Oedipus came and finally solved the riddle with this answer: "Man- as he crawls on fours as a baby, walks on two as an adult, and three and an elderly using a cane." Defeated, the once proud Sphinx threw herself from the mountainside and plummeted to her death; thus ending her reign of terror on mankind.
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In the late 4th century B.C.E Sparta was indisputably the most powerful city-state in all of Greece. However, the city-state of Thebes planned to challenge Spartan authority. As a result, Sparta sent troops up north to crush the city of Thebes. The people of Thebes planned to hide behind their walls until the Spartans left but their general planned to decisively crush the Spartans in open battle. This general was named Epaminondas and he planned to defeat the Spartans at the Battle of Leuctra. His strategy was simple but revolutionary. Epaminondas placed his strongest troops on his left wing so the could fight against the Spartans strongest. On this same wing, Epaminondas, also loaded up his men 50 ranks deep. Thebes also commanded the greatest cavalry in Greece and they used this to smash into the side of the Spartan phalanx. As a result the Spartan army fled the field and to everyone’s surprise Thebes was now the most powerful city-state in all of Greece. #greece#spartan#thebes#war#history#ancient

TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2019 - New Exhibitors
Galerie Eberwein, stand 434, specializes in antiquities from the Egyptian and neighbouring cultural regions dating from 3500 BC to the Coptic Period circa 1000 AD.
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Although his son Ramses II is more famous, Sethi is thought by many scholars to have been the greatest king of the 19th dynasty.
Sethi did much to promote the prosperity of Egypt. He fortified the frontier, opened mines and quarries, dug wells, and rebuilt temples and shrines that had fallen into decay or been damaged; and he continued the work begun by his father on the construction of the great hypostyle hall at Karnak, which is one of the most impressive monuments of Egyptian architecture. Another important work is his memorial temple at Abydos, which he dedicated to Osiris and six other deities and decorated with reliefs of great delicacy on which much of the original color remains. Behind this temple is a curious building dedicated to Osiris. Sethi’s tomb is the finest in the Valley of the Kings in western Thebes.
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Fragment of funerary bas-relief with hieroglyphic inscription from the "Book of Gates", Originally located in the sarcophagus chamber of the tomb of Sethi I
Polychrome limestone
36 x 15cm
New Kingdom, Reign of Sethi I, 1290-1279 BC
Former English private collection, acquired on the London art market in the 1970s and then by succession to the current owner. Imported to Europe before 1883
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Hatshepsut’s temple is considered the closest Egypt came to Classical architecture. Representative of New Kingdom funerary architecture, it both aggrandizes the pharaoh and includes sanctuaries to honor the gods relevant to her afterlife. #luxor#thebes#egypt 🇾🇪

Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the kings of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually (as in the case of Alexander the Great who claimed he was crowned at Luxor) . For the last photo of this set, do you know where the rest of this Obelisk is? #luxortemple#thebes#luxor#worldheritagesite#egypt 🇾🇪